Software Development Engineer III- (Backend)

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Role Summary
A high performing individual contributor who acts as a mentor to more junior engineers, applies new engineering principles to improve existing systems, and is responsible for leading complex, well-defined projects.

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join Us

Software Development Engineer III

• Are you passionate about travel, technology, and solving complex customer centric problems?
• Are you an engineer looking to showcase your ability to build highly scalable, performant, and resilient systems with the latest technologies available?
• Do you believe in teamwork as opposed to working in silos?
• Do you like to push boundaries to provide elegant simple intuitive solutions to complex business use case’s?

If so, the Loyalty Platform team at Expedia might be the right team for you. We’re looking for A high performing individual contributor who acts as a mentor to more junior engineers, applies new engineering principles to improve existing systems, and is responsible for leading complex, well-defined projects. We expect you to have the energy and passion to deliver using a whole range of technologies and a demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills.

As a global leader in travel, Expedia helps millions of people every day go places and build lifelong memories. With the Loyalty Platform, our mission is to give benefit to our customers of most comprehensive travel rewards program. We have recently launched a unified Loyalty Program viz. One Key. And with it, we aim to bring our traveler brands together within a single travel suite gives members the freedom to earn and spend rewards across every eligible element of a trip.

We have recently launched a unified Loyalty Program viz. One Key. And with it, we aim to bring our traveler brands together within a single travel suite gives members the freedom to earn and spend rewards across every eligible element of a trip. This means more visibility with valuable travelers for you than ever before. We take pride in solving problems by truly using the platform and build capabilities at scale.

Education & Experience
5+ years for Bachelor's
3+ years for Master's

Functional / Technical Skillset

• 5+ years software development work experience using modern languages (Java preferred)
• Bachelor’s in computer science or related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience
• Developed software in at least 3 different languages. Maintained/ran at least 4 software project/product in production environments (bug fixing, troubleshooting, monitoring, etc.).
• Exposure to Java, Scala, Kotlin, AWS, Kafka, S3, Lambda, Docker, Datadog
• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming concepts, data structure, algorithms, and test-driven development
• Solid understanding of load balancing, caching, database partitioning, caching to improve application scalability 
• Demonstrated ability to develop and support large-sized internet-scale software systems      
• Experience in AWS Services
• Knowledge of No-SQL databases and cloud computing concepts
• Sound understanding of client-side optimization best practices and tools
• Knowledge of server-side design patterns and continuous delivery principles
• Working knowledge of Agile Software Development methodologies

Who you are:

• Problem solver with a good understanding of algorithms, data structures, and distributed applications
• Understands and designs moderately complex systems.
• Proactively teams up with peers across the organization to build an understanding of cross dependencies and shared problem solving.
• Participates in a community of practice to share and gain knowledge.
• Continually seeks new technical skills in an engineering area.
• Shares new skills and knowledge with team to increase effectiveness.
• Demonstrates knowledge of advanced and relevant technology.
• Is comfortable working with several forms of technology.
• Understands the relationship between applications, databases and technology platforms.
• Leads/clarifies code evolution in code reviews.
• Understands how projects/teams interact with other teams. Understands how teams' goals fit a business need.  
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Passionate about quality of work

What you will do:

• Brings together different stakeholders with varied perspectives to develop solutions to issues and contributes own suggestions.
• Thinks holistically to identify opportunities around policies/ processes to increase efficiency across organizational boundaries.
• Identifies strengths and weaknesses among languages for particular use cases. Selects among technology available to implement and solve for need.
• Assists with a whole systems approach to analyzing issues by ensuring all components (structure, people, process and technology) are identified and accounted for.
• Identifies areas of inefficiency in code or systems operation and offer suggestions for improvements.
• Identifies business problems at the project level and provides solutions. Creates API's to be consumed across the business unit.
• Designs easily testable and observable software. Understands testing and monitoring tools. Tests and monitors code at the project level. Tests, debugs, and fixes issues within established SLAs.
• Develops and tests complex or non-routine software applications and related programs and procedures to ensure they meet design requirements.
• Effectively applies knowledge of software design principles, data structures and/or design patterns and computer science fundamentals to write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized, modular with good naming conventions.
• Effectively applies knowledge of databases and database design principles to solve data requirements.
• Effectively uses the understanding of software frameworks and how to leverage them to write simpler code.
• Compiles and reports on major operational or technical initiatives (like RCAs) to larger groups, whether via written or oral means.

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.

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